It occurred to me tonight that Pres. Obama seems to be having more trouble with his black acquaintances than with whites.

It was that Reverend Jeremiah Wright who took attention away from Obama's campaign with his outrageously racist remarks against whites during his campaign, and now he has to deal with another loudmouth -- an alleged Harvard scholar Louis Gates -- who derailed Obama's healthcare reform initiative two weeks ago. Then the President tried to bring this whole thing to a climax with the famous "beer summit" last Thursday. Now tonight, Louis Gates is once again trying to grab the media spotlight with his statement tonight claiming that he had received death threats.

In his first public appearance since sharing a beer at the White House on Thursday with President Obama and Police Sgt. James Crowley, who is white, Gates, who is black, said the debate over racial profiling sparked by his arrest shows that issues of class and race still run "profoundly deep" in the United States.

"They have not been resolved at all," he told a crowd of more than 150 who came to see him at the Martha's Vineyard Book Festival. Gates said he had to shut down his public e-mail and change his cell-phone number after receiving numerous death and bomb threats.

You know, it is old black men like Louis Gates, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton, who apparently don't have anything better to do than to rant and rave about race and the racial divide between blacks and whites because they have become obsessed and infatuated with the glare of the media...cameras, lights, and microphones.

Part of being "scholarly" is knowing when to speak up, and when to shut up.

During the last presidential campaign, a suggestion came out of the possibility that Pres. Obama would be another Jimmy Carter, a case of an overly smart guy (a nuclear physicist) who had real trouble handling the simple things around his presidency. I am getting the real impression that the person who made this suggestion was not far off.

From day one, despite being dubbed as "The Messiah" and the man who would save the world, his administration has been nothing but one misstep after another. While Pres. Bush, the younger, constantly fell over himself via his malapropisms, Pres. Obama seems to have no concept on real leadership by all of his etiquette missteps...his inability to speak or say the right thing at the right time.

At the beginning of his administration, during his visit to Great Britain, he gave as a gift a box of NTSC (American TV standard) standard DVDs of American movies. He ordered a bust of Sir Winston Churchill given to the United States after 9/11 to be returned to England, to the Brits great shock. Then we have the incident when First Lady Michelle Obama actually "touched" Queen Elizabeth...which is another no-no. So while we have our newest version of Vice President Dan Quayle in Vice President Biden, the President....a Harvard-educated attorney...laying and SERIOUSLY misspeaking on the whole issue of the Harvard professor who DID NOT act like an educated man when he messed and acted suspiciously with a Cambridge, MA police officer, accusing the police department and the officer while an ongoing investigation was going on...

And now we have his "Cash for Clunkers" fiasco which fell apart after one week of being implemented, followed by a news story this morning that The Messiah had invited the CEOs of the top U.S. corporations for a working lunch at the White House, and then asks these people for their credit card numbers after the fact, and after they had been "invited." It is common for White House visitors to be charged for food they consume at the same rate charged by restaurants, but c'mon, Barack, get yourself in order!

Hillary Clinton always talks about hitting the "reset" button in relationships.

I think Pres. Obama needs to hit the "reset" button in his presidency.